1. CHARLES EMERSON8 BUTTERFIELD (FRANCIS7, LEVI6, BENJAMIN5, BENJAMIN4,
BENJAMIN3, JOSEPH2, BENJAMIN1) was born July 04, 1828 in Redwood, Jefferson,
New York, and died May 24, 1884 in Bellevue, Sarpy, Nebraska. By 1850, he
had left Jefferson County for Bellevue, Sarpy County, Nebraska, where he
spent the rest of his life as a rancher in the Nebraska Territory and
afterward the State of Nebraska. Charles married ISABELLA STEBBINS, daughter
of JOEL C. STEBBINS and RUTH COLVIN. They were united in marriage in the
Presbyterian Church at Bellevue, Nebraska, Presbytery of Nebraska, Synod of
Missouri, by Reverend William Hamilton. Isabella was born August 20, 1833 in
New York, and died January 27, 1907 in Neola, Pottawattamie, Iowa; burial:
January 30, 1907, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska. Charles' Butterfield and
McAllaster ancestral lines are extensive in the Jefferson County, New York
area, where landmarks today bear the family names. An example is Butterfield
Lake, at the hamlet of Redwood, Town of Alexandria, which is named for
Charles' brother, Supervisor and Assemblyman William W. Butterfield. William
owned Redwood's mainstay business, the Redwood Glass Manufacturing company,
and at one time owned 50,000 acres in and around Jefferson County. William's
marriage to Laura Butterfield was the first to take place in the new (in
1853) Protestant Episcopal Church at Redwood.

Charles Butterfield's father and paternal grandfather, FRANCIS BUTTERFIELD and
LEVI BUTTERFIELD (wife ISABELLA CUMMINGS), both American Revolutionary
descendants, were natives of Vermont, and both lived and died in Jefferson
County, New York. Charles Butterfield and his wife ISABELLA (STEBBINS)
BUTTERFIELD and their children, as pioneering 1850 settlers from New York to
the still-untamed Nebraska Territory out west, added to the westward
expansion of America, thereby assisting to shape the Nation. Charles
Butterfield himself was an Indian fighter. He helped "win the West". Charles
enlisted October 15, 1862 and mustered in November 3, 1862. He was a Civil
War Cavalry officer---a Quarter Master Sergeant---whose unit, Company D of
the Second Nebraska Cavalry, contributed to the protection of settlers---and
friendly natives such as some Pawnee---, guarded the western frontier,
protected stage and telegraph lines and wagon trains, and operated against
Indians in the West during the era's Indian Wars with the Sioux Nation. Here
is an example---courtesy of the United States War Department and LWF
Communications---of some of the action in which Charles Emerson Butterfield
took part. This historic narrative can be found at http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/rpt_hle.htm
:

SIR: I have the honor to report that the Sioux (supposed to be Brules)
attacked the agency yesterday, killing several Pawnees and wounding myself.
I ordered First Lieut. Henry Gray to follow them with 36 men, and, if
practicable, to attack them. After pursuing about 50 of them for about 15
miles, he came upon about, 400 or 500 drawn up in line ready to receive him,
and upon being assured that the Pawnees, who were with him, 300 or 400
strong, would fight with him, he threw out some skirmishers, when the Sioux
opened upon them with rifles, killing Sergt. Joseph Dyson, and mortally
wounding Private George
Osborn; also killing their horses. At the first fire the Pawnees ran, leaving
our men alone. Lieutenant Gray fought them about an hour, when they
retreated. Four or five Sioux were killed and several horses. I had started
to his assistance with 20 men and one howitzer, which I was compelled to
send back, owing to the roughness of the country. When I reached Lieutenant
Gray, the Sioux were still in force about 6 miles distant; but it being
nearly night, I determined not to attack them, and fell back to my camp. To
better protect the whites living at the agency, I have crossed the Beaver
and established camp near the agency, where I shall remain until I receive
further orders.
Very respectfully,
HENRY L. EDWARDS,
Captain Company D, Second Nebraska Cavalry.
Brigadier-General McKean, Omaha, Nebr."

SOURCE: United States War Department. THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Series I,
Volume 22. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
LWF COMMUNICATIONS P.O. Box 26148 Trotwood, Ohio 45426-0148

Company D of the Second Nebraska Cavalry was also stationed at the "Post of
Omaha", the Nebraska Territorial Capitol, for a time, and actually occupied
the Capitol Building itself, at 20th and Capitol, and operated as a
protector of Omaha. That began in April of 1863 and lasted an unknown time.
Fort Kearny also served as home base for Charles' Company D in 1863. The
Second Nebraska Cavalry, having won a major victory against the Sioux at the
Battle Of White Stone Hills in Dakota on September 3 of 1863, winning high
acclaim, and its mission fulfilled, mustered out on December 23, 1863.
An account of The Battle Of White Stone Hills can be found at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~necivwar/CW/neincw/neincw.html

Charles Emerson Butterfield's mother POLLY McALLASTER was daughter of FRANCIS
McALLASTER and ANNA AVERILL. As noted in Averill-Averell-Avery by Clara A.
Avery, and History of Jefferson Co. N.Y. by Franklin B. Hough, 1854, the
first meeting for the Town of Antwerp, Jefferson, New York was held in the
home of Charles Emerson Butterfield's grandparents, Francis and Anna
[Averill] McAllaster. As described by Clara Avery, Anna Averill's daughter
Cordelia Joyce said at the age of 87 that her mother was of a cheerful and
hopeful disposition, a sweet singer, and fond of reading. When her husband
kept the Hotel at Antwerp, she cooked all night to feed the soldiers of the
War Of 1812 when they passed through Antwerp from Sacketts Harbor on their
way to Ogdensburg.

Charles Emerson Butterfield was descended through Anna Averill from some of
the oldest English families in Colonial New England including BRADFORD,
AVERILL, LAMBERT, ELLIOT, RAYMENT, SCRUGGS, SHATTUCK, SIBLEY, HOWE, CAVE,
NICHOLS, ANDREWS, PERLEY, HOWLETT, JACKSON, and FRENCH. Charles Butterfield
likewise descended through his father, FRANCIS BUTTERFIELD, from very early
Butterfields in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. Other American
Revolutionary War veterans in Charles Emerson Butterfield's line include his
great-great grandfathers WILLIAM BRADFORD (wife MARY LAMBERT) and JOHN
AVERILL (wife MARY BRADFORD), and his great grandfather PAUL AVERILL (wife
ZERUIAH HOWE). Charles Emerson Butterfield is also descended---through his
maternal grandfather, FRANCIS McALLASTER, from American Revolutionary War
veterans RICHARD McALLASTER (Battle of the Cedars) (wife SUSANNA DIMOND) and
his patriot father RICHARD McALLASTER, Sr. (wife ANN MILLER), the latter who
immigrated from Antrim County, Ireland, with Ann, in 1738. All are listed
D.A.R.

According to Biographies and Sketches for the Town of Antwerp, from The Growth
of a Century by John A. Haddock, 1895, Francis McAllaster's brother William
McAllaster , was "probably the best known and respected of any man in that
northern section." Both William and his son, Hon. George D. McAllaster,
served in the Legislature and as Supervisors of Antwerp.

Notes for CHARLES EMERSON BUTTERFIELD:

NEBRASKA CENSUS, 1856, DOUGLAS (SARPY) COUNTY
Roughly the boundaries of present-day Sarpy County. Enumerated by Leavitt L.
Bowen, Deputy United States Marshal July 30, 1856, who certified this data
August 31, 1856.

1890-1891 Business Directory & Farmer's List of the Nebraska State Gazetteer
DOUGLAS COUNTY BUSINESS DIRECTORY
OMAHA

Butterfield, M., Miss, artist, 420 Paxton blk.

Generation No. 2

2. SARAH JANE9 BUTTERFIELD (CHARLES EMERSON8, FRANCIS7, LEVI6, BENJAMIN5,
BENJAMIN4, BENJAMIN3, JOSEPH2, BENJAMIN1) was born April 17, 1855 in Iowa
City, Iowa, and died May 12, 1898 in Fort Crook, Nebraska. She married ORRIN
EDWARDS 1874 in Pappillion, Nebraska, son of STARLING and PHEBE EDWARDS. He
was born November 18, 1845 in Mount Carroll, Illinois, and died October 13,
1920 in Omaha, Nebraska.